My experience as a mental health inpatient: A doctor’s story
While I have previously written about the experience of depression and treatment as well as the importance of seeking help, I want to address overcoming…
Tag: Medical ethics
Patients abusing GP staff over Medicare rort allegations: RACGP
Claims that doctors have been rorting Medicare is fueling abusive behaviour from patients, the RACGP reports. College president, Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price says the…
Dr Charlie Teo denies futile surgery on people with inoperable brainstem tumours
Dr Charlie Teo has rubbished allegations he performed surgery on children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a tumour other surgeons consider inoperable because of the…
Robotic surgery: Is evidence showing its alleged wonders still missing in action?
Robotic surgery still carries the glittery image of cutting-edge medicine — if you excuse the pun. For those patients with the financial means, it’s been…
GP who prayed with his patients agrees to undergo education on professional boundaries
A GP in the UK who offered to pray with his patients has agreed to attend a professional boundaries course after complaints about his extra…
GP in fight for deceased patient’s $30m estate suffers legal blow over lost letter
A GP who has denied grooming an elderly patient in order to inherit his $30-million estate has failed to convince a judge that a long-forgotten…
What happens when the two oldest professions in the world meet?
I was recently approached by a GP seeking my advice about a potential boundary violation of a sexual nature. This middle-aged male GP, who is…
Hospitals accused of railroading palliative care doctors opposed to VAD
Associate Professor Marion Harris says some doctors fear for their rights to object to VAD.
Why the Tavistock gender identity clinic is being shut down
Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young…
AHPRA is in dangerous territory – we need a Royal Commission
I attended the AMA National Conference on 29-31 July, at which a motion calling for a Royal Commission was presented to about 160 voting delegates.…
